Death of an Arrogant Prick; I Reincarnated as a Skeleton?

Chapter 8: Exploration

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{Welcome to the Miserable Undead System!}

{Host: Donald Clinton}

{Special System Abilities: Corrupted- Locked}

>You only have access to the basic identification abilities of the cursed Miserable Undead System<

{Host Status:}

Race: Mid-tier Skeleton

Level: 3

Class: Classless

Attributes:

STR- 0.5

VIT- 1.4

SPE- 0.5

MIN- 0.6

{NOTE: STR for Strength; VIT for Vitality; SPE for Speed; MIN for Mind}

Health Points (HP): 3/3

{Skills: Bone Assembling}

{Passive Skill: Calma; Vampire}

{Special Skills: None}

{Magic Skills: None}

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{Remark: A befitting form for a miserable womanizer and arrogant prick! You will die the final death soon enough!}

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Despite leveling up 3 times the previous day, even as all his attributes increased with his level ups, something remained stagnant, his health points.

Despite leveling up 3 times, his total HP remained unchanged.

This led Clinton to conclude that his total HP would only increase when he either gained a class, leaving his classless status or when he finally evolved from a normal Undead Skeleton into a higher form of skeleton monster.

Here in this decaying forest, the concept of time was not straightforward since the world was always plunged in perpetual darkness.

Clinton only used his vague senses to determine time.

And today, after waking up from his nap under the roots of the decaying tree, the first thing that came to Clinton’s mind was not to hunt further but rather, the first thing that came to his mind was exploration.

If this was the first level of this dungeon, wherever it was and it followed the rules of a game, then there must be a gate that led to the next level of the dungeon.

And if there was a gate, there was a great likelihood of there being a gate guardian that protected the gate.

At the moment, all these were just speculations and Clinton yearned to clarify these speculations so he would not be left second-guessing.

This was why, waking up fresh and revitalized after the exhausting events of his first day since reincarnating into this world, he decided it was time to go out.

With his first skill, bone assembling that originally seemed useless but was slowly proving its use, Clinton was not scared of meeting dangerous enemies.

At the worst-case scenario, he could simply hide from their reach again by disassembling his bony body and entering where his enemies could not access.

And with that, he began his exploration.

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Just 2 hours later, Clinton was done with his exploration.

He finally understood the full layout of this level of the dungeon. It was smaller than he expected, much smaller.

The only reason why he took so long to fully explore the dungeon was because of his cautious approach, not wanting to antagonize any of the monsters in the dungeon, most especially the Ogres.

By now, Clinton already learned something new too.

He learned something new about level 5 monsters in this level of the dungeon after having his first encounter with them.

Level 5 monsters were the strongest monsters in this level of the dungeon and unlike the other monsters, these apex predators already had access to magic.

There was only one level 5 Green Goblin in the whole first level of the dungeon, Clinton already confirmed.

There was also just one level 5 Undead Tree but as for the Ogres? The Ogres had three menacing level 5 Ogres.

The level 5 Green Goblin had access to basic ice magic.

The level 5 Undead Tree had access to wood magic, while the three level 5 Ogres had access to devastating stone magic that made them deadly predators of this level of the dungeon.

Despite all their power and magic though, they were not the absolute rulers of this level of the dungeon, they were not the apex predator.

After his exploration, Clinton learned that this level of the dungeon was smaller than he expected. It was just 2 kilometers long and wide.

Like he expected, there were only 3 different specie of monsters residing here; the Green Goblins, the Undead Trees, and the Ogre.

The population of monsters in this level of the dungeon never changed, always remaining constant no matter how many were killed at a time.

This made Clinton confirm even more that the workings of this world were similar to a game. Heck, maybe too similar even.

At some point, he had to ask in his mind. ‘Don’t tell me man!’

‘Don’t tell me, did I reincarnate inside a game?!’

‘The f*ck!’

He had to give his all to keep his composure and avoid freaking out. Thankfully, his passive skill, Calma was ever present at the rescue.

And just like he expected, this level of the dungeon indeed had a gate that likely led to a higher level of the dungeon.

And as expected, the gate had a powerful guardian.

The guardian of the gate was the apex predator of this level of the dungeon, and it was the sole 4^th specie of this level of the dungeon.

The guardian of the gate was a powerful Golem who had access to stone magic that was even more powerful than that of the Ogres.

Beep!

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{Warning! Enemy has been detected!}

{You have encountered a level 5 Guardian Golem!}

{You will die!}

(Miserable system hint: Escape or die!}

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Clinton’s response to the system?

‘F*ck you!’

He did heed the warning though after watching one of the level 5 Ogres challenge the guardian only to be ripped to shreds by the unforgiving power of the Guardian Golem.

The level 5 Ogre respawned 5 hours later.

After his exploration, Clinton came to a conclusion. ‘I need more power!’

‘And if I am to get more powerful, I need to beat that guardian Golem and get access to level 2 of this dungeon’.

At that moment, he grinned spitefully. ‘Angel f*cking Athena, so this is your version of a world more miserable than hell for me to suffer right?’

He spat hatefully. ‘Yeah, I admit, this world is indeed insufferable and miserable but that is not enough to stop the almighty track King Clinton’.

‘Just watch me as I claw my way back from this hell worse than hell!’

‘Watch me as I rise from my ashes!’

‘Watch me as I rise from my ashes to destroy you!’

‘This, I vow, I will definitely get my revenge!’